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Wood fired cooking

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  Wood fired pizza ovens are a popular purchase for London homeowners. Summer will be here before you know it and a garden pizza oven can be an excellent addition to the home and a great experience to be shared with friends and family.   Pizza ovens reach extremely high temperatures, (we are talking 500-700 degrees F!) and are great not only for cooking pizzas in a short amount of time, but also for adding a unique flavour to braising meats. The added flavour is just one of the benefits that may make you want to invest in one for yourself :   Radiation - Higher performance than an open fire as the heat source radiates all around the oven, which also retains a great deal of the heat. Convection - As the flame is situated on one side of the oven, this helps to better circulate heat around, in a similar way that a fan assisted kitchen oven does.  Conduction -  The materials used to construct a pizza ovens help to retain and transfer the heat directly to the food th...

Find the best wood logs for your fire

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  Not all forms of wood burn the same way, wood from some trees can burn slowly, providing lots of heat, whilst others can burn much more quickly and produce much more smoke. When you come to purchase wood logs for your fireplace there are a few things for you to consider. Firstly, where will the wood be burnt?, do you have a wood burning stove, or an open fire? - The choice of which wood logs are best for your fire will be dependent upon how it’s being burnt. Let's look at some key factors which will help you choose the best type of wood to keep you warm throughout the colder months. Which wood logs burn better and keep my chimney clean? You should avoid using softwood as your main fuel for burning. Hardwood is a much superior choice as it is more dense and produces greater heat output when compared to softwood. Wood logs from softwood trees do catch fire quickly but they deposit a high amount of soot on your chimneys due to the high sap content. Softwoods are much better utilise...

Logs That Keep You Feeling Warm & Cosy This Autumn

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  A wonderful walk with family and friends this Autumn sounds delightful, doesn’t it? Now imagine being made to feel cosy by the warmth of a real fire at the end of it, really bringing you all together… For the best experience with your home fire, you need the best fuel. Green Olive Firewood offers you a fantastic range of firewoods that cater for every occasion this Autumn.   Green Olive Firewood’s heat logs are a carbon-neutral fuel that is becoming ever more popular here in the UK. All our fuels are approved by the BSL, are sustainably sourced and our premium quality, natural heat logs are perfect for winter fuel. They are amongst the hottest burning fuels that you can purchase and are great value for money, whilst being environmentally friendly. Sawdust briquettes are very easy to deal with after you’ve had your fire. There is no need to clean every time you use it, because there is much less residue left, as heat logs .     Kiln-dried logs are anoth...

Get your fire to burn brighter with Green Olive Firewood

    Barbecuing can be great fun if you have the right type of good quality charcoal with which to cook your food over. Good quality charcoal will produce enough heat to cook your food thoroughly and cleanly. Restaurant grade charcoal is a premium fuel, obtained for its reliability and purity. Unlike other charcoal products restaurant grade charcoal has no additives and it burns at an even temperature so that the heat is consistent for cooking over. If you’re after that authentic barbecue taste with the quality of restaurant prepared food, try restaurant grade charcoal to impress your guests! Green Olive Firewood produces premium professional-grade lumpwood that is used to make our very high-quality restaurant grade charcoal. Our lumpwood is usually a hardwood which has properties similar to that of oak and birch. As a result, the density and size of our charcoal pieces are such that they maintain high temperatures over a long period of time. Our restaurant grade charcoa...